(Commentary by Dr. Ebony Hilton, UVA Health physician) Black and brown Americans are dying of COVID-19 at roughly three times the rate of their white peers. Despite this tragic loss, many people of color, especially younger ones, aren’t planning to get vaccinated. In a National Foundation for Infectious Disease poll, 41% of Black adults ages 18-44 said they wouldn’t get a vaccine. Another 21% were undecided. Many respondents — no doubt reacting to the myths and misinformation they’ve seen online — expressed concerns about safety and side effects.
Charlottesville is home to this country’s only museum of art created by indigenous Australians. UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe has more than 2,100 paintings, ornaments and tools, but some of those objects are going home after decades in America.
As things begin to open back up, there’s still cause for caution. A new variant of COVID-19 is popping up in the U.S. and doctors are worried. This new variant, called the Delta variant, is more transmissible and can cause more severe infactions. Dr. Taison Bell with UVA Health says two-dose vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna are protective, something he says is all the more reason for people to get vaccinated.
“People may misinterpret that anger as a sign of guilt,” says Harvard Business School professor Leslie K. John, whose paper “Anger Damns the Innocent” is forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science. In a series of experiments, John and her colleagues—Katherine DeCelles of the University of Toronto, Gabrielle Adams of the University of Virginia, and Holly Howe of Duke University—found that anger can make a person come across as guilty even when they are not.
(Commentary) The lock-down reliever has stitches in his head from a recent weightlifting accident, while his battery mate is nursing a broken finger. The daring rookie outfielder is fast-tracking icon status, while the veteran shortstop never takes a game off. With considerable assistance from their teammates Monday, this captivating cast lifted Virginia baseball to its fifth, and most implausible, College World Series appearance. UVA 5, Dallas Baptist 2. On to Omaha.
After a two-year term as vice rector, Whittington W. Clement will succeed Jim Murray next month as rector of the University of Virginia and chairman of the Board of Visitors.
Pain can often cloud your judgment, especially under extreme duress, but not for Air Force Col. William A. Jones III. As a pilot in Vietnam, [the UVA alumnus] remained in control of his charred plane long enough to fly nearly 90 miles to relay information that would help save another pilot's life. For his valiant effort, despite his many injuries, he earned the Medal of Honor.
With a highly educated and skilled workforce – including the highest concentration of tech workers in the nation – world-class universities and unmatched digital infrastructure, Virginia already was in the pole position in the race to establish the top tech talent pipeline when the commonwealth recently unleashed a bevy of new market-responsive talent pipeline initiatives. Virginia is injecting more than $2 billion into a Tech Talent Investment Program that cumulatively represents the largest state commitment to computer science education.
(Commentary) Dallas Baptist University is playing the University of Virginia in a win-or-go-home Super Regional game right now, and something I haven’t seen in a while just happened – a runner got on first, stole second, then the batter hit a fly to deep right that allowed the runner to move to third. What is this? Actual baseball? Like, with base running and small ball? … This game, this college game between UVA and Dallas Baptist, made me feel love for baseball again.
Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania, who studies positive psychology, says most optimists do better in life than merited by their talents alone. But with lawyers, the opposite is true. Seligman’s survey of law students at the University of Virginia found that pessimists got better grades, were more likely to make law review and got better job offers. “In law,” he told [The Wall Street Journal], “pessimism is considered prudence.”
In 2016, Donald Trump won the White House and sparked a political backlash that catapulted Virginia Democrats to dominance. Democrats’ defense of their House majority will test whether voters simply rallied to them in defiance of Trump. Republicans will test whether they can overcome Trump’s unpopularity in Virginia and get back in favor. The new faces running for both parties “shows that the enthusiasm of that Trump era really could carry over to these future elections,” said J. Miles Coleman, an analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
McAuliffe resigned from GreenTech during the governor's race in late 2012 and distanced himself from the struggling firm amid questions about its production claims and financing. It filed for bankruptcy in February 2018. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said voters will view McAuliffe's pre-gubernatorial past as "ancient history. … A lot of this is going to be ineffective because if there are any swing votes out there - and there sure aren't many of them - they're going to say, 'I've heard about this before,' " he said. "Or, 'That again? Give it a rest.' "
After comfortably winning re-election last year for a fifth term in Congress, Lexington Republican Andy Barr could have higher political aspirations. As first reported in Kentucky Fried Politics, the domains "andybarrforsenate.com" and "barrforsenate.com" were both registered in late April. "Many members of the House think about potentially running for the Senate at a certain point. But that doesn't necessarily mean that a campaign is imminent," said University of Virginia Center for Politics elections analyst Kyle Kondik.
“Cuba has a long history of creating their own technology,” said David Nemer, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who researches Cuba, told VICE World News. “This is a way of showing the world that the embargo doesn’t get in the way of their development,” he added, referring to the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.
“In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers’ job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them,” Peter Norton, University of Virginia historian and author of “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City,” told Vox. “But under the new model, streets became a place for cars — and as a pedestrian, it’s your fault if you get hit.”
Dr. Chris Holstege, who directs the Blue Ridge Poison Center at the University of Virginia, said the facility gets 20-40 calls each year related to K2, which is down from the drug’s earliest days in 2009. Some of the cases they deal with, though, are intense.
(Commentary) An article titled “7 Reasons to Give ‘War and Peace’ a Chance” has been written by Andrew Kaufman, professor of Russia’s literature at the University of Virginia. For his last point, he said that “It will make you feel better because you are living.” In the description of the novel, I can’t think of better terms. After completing the novel, I felt like another guy. Something about reading “War and Peace” grabbed my spirit like Nikolai’s s experience of his sister singing the novel. It is a book that anybody should be able to carry through, because it is not just a book, but an exp...
The jury awarded damages for destroyed eggs and embryos and the verdict could help others who have lawsuits against Chart and the fertility center, or even those with similar lawsuits against other companies. "This is a landmark case," said Naomi R. Cahn, director of the UVA Family Law Center. "In the past, many of these cases have settled, but here, we have a definitive jury verdict, holding the tank manufacturer primarily responsible, but with the clinic also responsible."
Dr. Costi Sifri, the director of hospital epidemiology at UVA Health, said that the return of tourists is a good sign for the area. "We do have a largely immune population and this is the reason we did this [vaccinate] if that means we become a tourist destination again, as Central Virginia and Charlottesville have always been, I think that's really fantastic news," he said
In a time ravaged by a pandemic, an insurrection and police killings of Black citizens, Monroe Gallery of Photography will show a series capturing it all. Opening June 18, “Present Tense” marks Monroe’s first multi-journalist exhibition of current news events during this epoch-changing era. [UVA photographer] Sanjay Suchak’s eerie photo of Charlottesville marchers at the University of Virginia Rotunda appears almost reverent until you realize they are white supremacists. Suchak also produced a compelling image of a college graduate giving a triumphant Black Power salute in front of a graffiti-...